Nurses' Pay

HC Deb 28 April 1995 vol 258 cc717-8W

Mr. Mark Robinson

To ask the Prime Minister if he will make a statement about nurses' pay. [22336]

The Prime Minister

The report for 1995–96 of the Independent Review Body for Nursing Staff, Midwives, Health Visitors and Professions Allied to Medicine was published on 9 February 1995. The review body recommended a 1 per cent. national increase in pay, with additional increases to be negotiated locally. The Government accepted the review body's recommendations in full.

I am advised that offers have been made by 175 NHS trusts. Since the vast majority meet the nurses demand for a rise of 3 per cent., I assume that the offers are acceptable to them. It was that to which I was referring in the House yesterday.